The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 1

The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star ant. by Mall, $0 to 99 WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, fair; mod- ate northerly winds Temperature Last Maximum, 41 Today noon, Hours Minimum, 40. 36, EDITION TWo CH NTS IN SEATTLE, od as Heoo nd Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffios at beat <ngress March 3, Per Your _ VOL UME > * FRANCE SEIZES B: . SCHOOL FIGHT | VER CIGARET Miniature “Vice”| War in Board of Education With charges and counter charges flying thick and ao miniature replica of” the recent controversy between Kev uncey J. Hawkins and Mayor E. J. Brown was due to break at Friday afte 's session he wehool t . WASH., FRIDAY, pera inte Firet Prize Pie Maker and Champ Eater ndalt Excitement Runs High as Troops WOULD RETURN Confiscate Valuable Properties\y|(TIMS CASH Credit Institutions, Tax Collectors’ ' Offices, Furnaces and| Pair Charged as State Mines Are Also Gobbled Up Bunco Men Seek f (UNITED PRESS SUMMARY) Immunity Depositors became panicky at Dusseldorf and all the elty’s banks closed their doors, By John W. Nelsen Credit institutions and tax collectors’ offices thru- {le evidence that Lester Ruben: out the Rubr also were seized; coke furnaces and/ stein and Isador Kalven are meme” state mines were occupied by French troops; several | bers of a giant graft syndicate, with arrests of German officers were made, | operations extending to every part The German government reiterated Instructions to| of the continent, were being uneow its workers to continue passive resistance and fur-|ered F by Prosecuting Attor nish no coal to the invaders; the cabinet agreed to| ney T. H. Patterson, frenzied effort” reimburse workers and operators for losses incurred | to ward off prosecutions were being ~ thru such resistance. made by the two youths, whose oper” France warned Germany that further Fecalcltrance | ations here during the past 60 daye | Seattle's champion piemaker preparing Dalton m that rund Me or in her kitchen, whil C. ©. . at differ In th right + @ little judging somewh nt fro enters into his wan back of the day's routi pies entered in The Star-C um Apple troops us excitement and of man reichsbank thruout the Rhineland Ruhr. tremend near oh today seized branches the Conflicting reports as to the confiseations eame from various sources; in some Instances ft was re ported actual ensh had been seized; a Berlin dixpateh sald the troops were acting under instructions of the interallied and were taking only the customs tax office deposits: At automobile carrying 150,000,000 marks was reported taken by the French. th 4 Rhineland tigation of th ets to Home Brew Olympia, Dee. 19 Howdy, folks! So this is Olym- ia eee ‘Hotels in Olympia até so crowded that many lobbyists are forced to sleep in the gutter. Olympt believes in making everyone feel at home. eee ‘The biggest thing in Olympia is Gov. Hart's chew of tobacco. cee ‘The next biggest tg Gov. Hart's! second chew. Motto for the session: Now ts the Time for All Good Men to Come to} the Raid of Their Party. "ee Many freak laws will be introduced in the legislature. There ts the bimbo who wants to make it a gross misde- meanor to cut a ple into more than four pieces, and the bird who would make it capital punishment for x one to divide a quart into more wie drink: eee Members of the Three-Hours-for- | Lunch clob are trying to persuade Bill Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, to back a mint mum lunch hour law. eee FOR THE FAIR AND WARMER SEX One of the most drastic bills in the history of Washington will appear next week, when « legis- lator will introduce a bill to make it a crime for a woman to com- mit murder. . John Hanks introduced a resolu tion asking congress to take immedi ate action on the seed appropriation, but J. Howard Shattuck of Kitsap} pointed out that it was uncorstitu tional for congress to take immediate action on anything oe It ts easy to tell a lobbyist. He al ‘ways has 4 fat roll in his pocket and ‘on the back of his neck. THE LEGISLATIVE BETWEEN THR Lys (Boeiety Notes) John H. Dewar, one of the younger members of Seattlo’s bootlegging set, iv in Olympia this week. His presence here bs the occasion for many delightful The Committee on Public Morals hel fan informal meeting Tuesday night which they decided to oppose the box Ris After adjcurament, ihe member the prize a Sisartem.” A geod time wos had by a ‘The sherifte’ convention, one of the events of the season, has come to a lose. When the police officers left for thelr homes they were bid goodbye and « St the station, and when news | tt departure reached the eapitol there was not = dry throat in the legis lature. bs ‘The two most ences at the present session are Mark Reed and Mark Time. eee The chiropractic lobby has just ar- rived at the hotel. They're a nerve- racking crowd. . Senator Bob Grass of King hag in. troduced a bill to permit drug stores | and | to sell whisky on prescriptions, the bootieggers are fighting measure tooth and nafl the KNOWS Every senator has a flock of | bills. Some that he will intro- duce this session—others that he | hhann't paid since last seston, | ‘Yom Murphine is leader of the in- surgent bloc in the house, but he ean't compare in popularity with the é2urn to Page 7, Column 3) dominating infiv: | 'Mrs, J. L. Sandall Pie Baker of By Wanda von Kettler ware J. L. Sandal, of 1314 &. Teth st, ts Seattle's champion maker of apple pie! Her ple was chosen Thursday night by the judges from among 150 entrants in The Star-Cotiseum Apple Pie contest as the one scoring high est on all potnts, The score card used av a basis for judging showed that her ple stood 20 per cent on Jappearance, 49 per cent on crust Jand 40 per cent on filling, totalling }100 fm all. Mra Sandall will be awarded the $15 prize at 8:30 p. m. Friday at the Colineum theater Other prizewinning pies were baked by Miss K. Larkin, 2012 West lake ave, who will be awarded $5; Mrs. L. M. Fadden, $417 Fubrman fave; Mra, J. Nordstrom, 7049 22d |N. W.; Mra. P. J. Donnelly, 3001 EB | Alder: Mra. Warren B. Moore, 1315 |E. Pike st. and Mrs la Winfrey, |1877 Shelby st., who are to receive |the one dollar awards. JUDGES HAVE DIFFICULT 408 | ‘The judges took a long time to de. lelde. They said they hadn't been up lagainst anything #0 difficult for |many months, Seattle has too many | plemakers who hover close to the [champion class for judging of thetr | ples to be easy. Among these might | be mentioned Mra, R. G. Green, Mra Wliliam Thomas, Mra. Nettie Bullock and Mrs. T. B. Shirley, whose pies, tho not awarded cash prizes, caused much comment among the judges, and therefore deserve honorab mention. There were others whose This Mother ! } Biggest Family---1,200 |And They All Share Sorrows With | Het By Bob Bermann There was an old woman Who lived in a shoe. She had 40 many children She didn’t know what to do. So runs the old nursery rhyme. And,” comments Mrs. Dorothy Bruckart, “it may be all right. But I don’t live in a shoe—so I don’t have any trouble deciding what I ought to do.” | Her remark 1s pertinent. Because, as welfare supervisor for the Seattle | |brdnch of the Pacific Telephone & |Telegraph Co., she the fopter. mother of the say: “Num * whenever @ local telep| riber takes his receiver off the hook You know,” said Mrs, Bruck- art Thursday, “I always feel an- noyed when I hear a mother be- wailing the trouble that her chil- dren give her. She says that her two or three youngsters—or five or six, at most—take up all her time, so that she never has a chance to do anything else, “But I can find time to look after all my 1,200 girls—and still enjoy life. Trouble? Of course. There's nothing worth while in this life that you ean get with. out trouble, But it's wi Mrs. Bruckart’s tithe of mother” is no mere figure of speech, She has every right in the world to it “The telephone business, you se,” Mre. Bruckart explains, “is fourth good mechanical equipment and three-fourths human wervice. No one. 1,200-0dd girls who | | | | ther ste jechool , Bar Start Photographers | Is Champion Apple, Seattle; Prize Offering Brings $10 | ples caused considerable discussion, | but whose names space will not per- mit uq to print. We must hurry | tel! about something wonder x0! which Ix to happen to the first-prise | winning ple. A telegram wag received at The! Star office Thursday afternoon from | New York. It was sent by Richard Barthelmess, the star of “Fury,” | which ts being shown this week at the Coliseum, and read: “To show my interest in the Great Northwest, I desire privilege of purchasing for $10 the prize ple of the Star-Coliseum apple pie contest,” ant went on to say: “Would like to send winner au tographed portrait of myself “RICHARD BARTHELMESS.” And what do you think of that! Mrs, Sandall’s pip is going to New York. It ts to be packed tn a tin box and sent off with a prayer that postoftice pe handle it straight up, While Richard's picture, autographed, is coming to Seattle Oh, my! | About the s10 he ofters tn pay ment. We already taken the Mberty of spending ft before ite ar rival. It will be remembered that all ples entered in the contest were to rent out to orphans and needy families of the city. Something 150 ples were entered. ‘It was 4 ided, the receipt of the tele-| gram from New York, that orphans could eat more pies, so an order im tely nt in to one of the city’s pie bak t ts output to ade upen th 150 wan one th | be every bit aw good an (Turn to Pag Has City’s | ries clares “home m Column 4) Their Joys and Their) matter how we pra good our equipment 4, can't hope to the public ly unless we the most | active spirit of co-operation from our kirls—bec the finest |system in the world can be rendered useless by an operator who | |really working for the best interests | | nerve have ause telephone jof the community “And it's my job to keep the girls Jin the proper frame of mind #0 that ey can give us this co-operation That means that we have to take | |far more interest in the girls’ private |life than the ordinary Uusiness do r instance, the most cient telephone operatér in the world can't give good service if she is worried abo private affairs—so it comes within. my ince to help her out in this Il let me. She may have run up a lot of bills, ¢ maybe she's fallen into the clutches of a loan shark, If she comes t and tells me about it IN jake the matter up and ar. range it so that she can straight en herseH out without worrying about it any more ‘And there are countiess other lit tle personal matters that I'm called on to do “In a way, my Job is like that of principal of an enormous school for girls, Yes, that's just what I mean. The psychology of a telephone offic is exactly the same as that of a girls’ school—the girls have to be treated in exactly the same way “Of ¢ most of the operators | are older than school girls, But (Zurn to Page 7, Column 5) | appeared jstar’a general | FILMDOM MOURNS | REID'S PAS! greatest stars and producers | destroy us when we were an infant | | Reid’s death ' town > th in r to make aituation all toba childre 10 dealers who are ® nt Croson, according to T Hat b ident lor, " ard that the emsion of the in was s & nor Taylor as matter nerted Fr and ¢ 1 a thoro ace my r extigation t and tur. be taken if nothing rewults fre ns." “The trust” te ot co nible the tobac for opposition | et movement among according to MacMahon, Seattle | arted the contro. nth by appearing be fore a meeting of the schoot |board and reading a let of tobac he charged with selling cigareta to children in the Interlake | district “The has absolutely re in spite of the fact | (Torn to Pace 11, Column | PLAN FUNERAL | OF WALLY REID, | Photoplay World Intends to! Crush Out Dope BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON 108 ANGELES, Cal, Jan, 19.—| In the little Hollywood chapel where make-believe ses of sorrow and death have been filmed times with- out number, hushed preparations were made today for the funeral of Wally” Reid, soreen idol, whose brilliant career was dramatically med yesterday when hy lost a heroic fight to “come back” from) the shadowland of drugs. | arm resp Irectorn, Byre Thomas y lant versy o ints, whom board done about it | itary districts, [the headquarters. lot, where Wally rose to fame, deserted and silent. Sunlight ered on gaudy seta and masatve scenes; the great glaring Kileig lights stood gaunt and shuttered, while on the lips of film folk there was but phrase FILM COLONY TO | BATTLE DRUGS | “Dope must gor" | After two years of whispered ru mors about the victims that the narcotic tentacles have claimed among actors, the climax-—the death of Keid—caused the film colony to consecrate itself with amazing nity of spirit to drive out the! to the industry lied terday he t month for was flick. at a want was treated for! a nervous break His wife, Dorothy Daven and their child at tho} de at. the end | Congestion of the lungs and kid-| used ‘by his nerv break. kiven by physicians as € cause of death, which sudden relapse after it] he might recover, The} said, however, that the| condition was made | worse by the effects of drugs, which, cording to his wife and mother. | inlaw, Wally ceased to use shortly | before his breakdown some time ago. down. port, be were neys ¢ down. the immec followed a doctors ING | 2 ef filmdom joined in lamenting | he motion pictures have n to Page 7, Column 2) | | Spokane Here Is Another Good Bargain What greater ple have than th real good home? The Star's Want Ad columns have helped many find homes to their liking Here is another: sure can any one comfort of a A $3,800 city, therefore her“ ATTRAC- BUNGALOW Owner leaving the must sacrifice TIVE "MODERN of 6 rooms and attic, situated on a nice, level lot, with all im- provements in and pald, inclu Ing paving. It has a firepla bookcases, modern — cabin kitchen, concrete basement, f nace, laundry trays. Can’ give in fate possension and good terms to responsible party. Re- member, mplete rooms and large attic, on paved street ne |has gone the Want Ad Columns who will show you this Turn to and see comty little home. | Washington | have lost | p j their Banks were surre ed by troops seized in Mayence, Dusseldorf, Dort Wormsingen and Bo The and Instanc reichsbank in most were preparing to flee ad the confiseations were put into effect. * *& & 'HUGE ARMIES AWAIT ACTIO (Copyright, 192%, by United Press) LONDON Jan, 19.—France has 600,000 men under arms and ready to go into action in event of war with Germany, growing out ef the Ruhr invasion, Germany, while {ts nominal army totals leat than 100,000, has five times that many actually in train ing and prepared to become soldiers » short notice, i¢ war should break out out by French authorities tn Paris, ‘These statistion are interesting, In view of the fact that Germany ned France and Belgium that an advance beyond the confines of the neutral zone might result in @ colll- #ion with German troopa, BERLIN COULD ASSEMBLE ARMY A Berlin dispatch gave the follow. ing information concerning the Ger. man army: It constets of 21 infantry, 18 caval- Ty and weven artillery regiments, Its total strength ts under the 100,000 permitted by the Versailles treaty. The country is divided Into six mit of which Muenster is The French army, according to a Parts dispatch, quoting official sources, totals 600,000 men, distrib. uted all over France. Forty-five thousand to 50,000 are engaged in the | occupation of the Ruhr, and 75,000 are stationed In the occupied areas in the Rhineland GERMANY HAS SEVEN DIVISIONS It was pointed out ited to 100,000, non-commissioned for 12-year terms, forming the framework of a much larger army. Germany all are enlisted practically officers, could put seven full | |divisions in the field on very short | notice, Altho the Versailles treaty does not allow ¢ any heavy artillery or military aviation, (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) many some Legislature t to Be Asked to Name Peak ‘‘Tacoma’’ Incongruous to Have Great Object Called After His ar fs a movement on foot have a bill introduced in declaring ‘*Tacoma” name of the moun Faitor ‘There here to the legislature to be the offic tain. The bill almply recites the fact inasmuch as the state of Wash: after Incongruous to natural object in man who fought and tried named G it is the noblest state honor a st Washington ington was nation. We find ased by the name in 1899 @ bill legisiature changing of Hangman's ereek in county Latah creek, and our bill will be modeled along the same lites. We believe it will as the action of Director ench in removing the foreign from the state map and the original namo seems to little opposition or critt that the ¥ nam storing moet with cist We would tly appreciate if you would send us copy your editorial which was forwarded fo the American Scenic and Historie Preservation society and which sed them to finally tak indorsing the name for the mountain on November 1921. We are gathering number of Indorsements is organizations, the nic and Historic Preservation so: sty having sent us copy of the resolution passed unanimously by board of trustees, Real Estate association, which on record at its last two conventions in support of the ab- original name; the Seattle Real tate association, advertising clubs, It is the plan to have our 6 a ca in ‘wcoma” 28, by va American french according to Information gtven | in Paria that} ‘Two blocks away, the great Lasky | while the German reichswehr is lim. | and capable of | onge | to! was | i action | together | the North-| would result in coal movements from the Rubr to Germany being stopped altogether, Greek and Turk troops were reported clashing in Thrace. A few men were killed in fighting slong the Maritza river. The Angora government has sent allies protesting advance of the Greeks. * * *% \NEW SEIZURES AROUSE ANGER) LONDON, Jan, 19.—All branch German banks, credit instita- tions and tax collectors’ offices in the Ruhr were confiscated by the French today, according to # Central News dispatch from Berlin, and their papers nund, Weisbaden, nected swiftly branch directors a note to th GREEKS AND TURKS FIGHT) LONDON, Jan, 19.—Greek and Turk troops clashed in Thrace today, according to semi- official reports, A few were killed tn fight ing on the right bank of the Maritza river, The reports sald Greece had violated the Muda- nian convention and concentrated troops in Thrace advancing tast- ward to the Turkish outposts. ee | see BY CARL D. GROAT ESSEN, Jan. 19. — French troops seized and occupied two state mines in the Buer region of the Rubr today. The directors and President Ahrens of the mine management | | | CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 19— The Angora government today dis-| St Relbersen were arrested. patched a note to the allies protest-| German workers immediately ing against the presence of two\threatened to strike in retaliation, | Greok battalions at Karakateh, con-|demanding release of the officials | trary to provisions of the Mudania|and removal of the troops. conference, “YANG "Hiso began development of ® customs line around the Rhine land Ruhr. Within limfts of the newly occu- pled zone the invaders tightened their hold on the pulse of German jindustry. Reichsbank Seized and Doors Guarded DUSSELDORF, Jan. 19-—The|" jocks on the Rhineheren canal French today seized a Deutachbank were seized and all traffic to Ger- | automobile which was transferring | many was halted. Four trains load-| 160,000,000 marks from a reichabank | 6a with coke were haited. branch. The latter building Was) pirector Schlutius of the padiocked and patrolled. tax office was arrested at Dusseldorf After the selzure all the banks of|tecause he refused to deliver his Duaseldorf were closed. j books to the French, Reichsbank directors thruout the| The latter instituted measures to occupied zone attempted to carry off| Work the state forests, collect cus- | deposit books a» word of France's in-|toms and a 20 per cent coal tax and | tention to seize all banks and credit | intend to make use of German taxa- | houses spread. | tion statistics, Troops surrounded motor trucks |, German coal operators met with ni a ae they pulled away from |General Fournier last night. The re- fie local branch, ané prevented do. | sult of their conference is not yet parture. known, but it is assumed they re- "At Dortmund guards were placed | !sed to make required coal deliveries about the reichsbank to prevent eg-|804 that Herr Thyssen and others cape of officials or removal of pa- |W!!! shortly face a French court mar- tal. ee Mayence troops seized the| Germans in the Ruhr, while pleased reichsbank’s deposit books just as of- at the French policy of “open arrest” ficlala were about to fly with them. pia Thyssen and other coal operators, Troops oecupied four coke furnaces |PY Which industrialists are left ac- land atate ralnes at Retekiinghausen | ually free to come and go, are frank- Ind arrested the director. ly concerned over the ever tighten- ing economic pressure. Selzure of the national coal tax, already decreed in the formally occu- pled Rhineland region, ts causing Particular uneasiness. There was a minor disturbance at Altessen today when a German po- liceman was arrested for refusing to salute a French officer, eee Germany Warned of Punishment PARIS, Jan. 19.—Germany will |be deprived of Ruhr coal altogether if she persists in her policy of ob- struction, the government warned |the German charge d’affaires here today. in Washington’s State Enemy |Chamber of Commerce take tho! |matter up with the various cham bers of commerce thruout the state | and as many indorsements| as possible to back up the bill, also jany othe organizations that we have time to reach before the bill |19 presented. We already have an assortment of favorable comments nd indorsements and are adding to} jthe Ust daily, so t we will have quite a mass of favorable evidence and indorsements to present. While the eriticism may be made/and other Ruhr industrialists and that Tacoma ip interested in this| to have them escorted to French | matter because It would be of bene | headquarters at Bredeny, according ft to this city to have the con-ito advices from Essen. The mayor trove sottied in favor of the|reptied that {t wis impossible; he original name, we would be lack-!had notified ‘Thyssen and others |ing in both intelligence and honesty |iut they had refused to obey. if we did not admit that it would . . |be of great benefit to Tacoma to| * |have this done, But as seattie/Customs Deposits makes the strong Taken by French argument that whatever benefits BERLIN, Jan, 19.—The interal- one city has a |Uke effect upon all the other cities of the lied Rhineland commission today Northwest, we feel that the hefit which would accrue to Ta- secure Arrest of German Leaders Ordered | | BERLIN, Jan. 1 ‘rance today ordered the mayor of Mullheim to the arrest of Herr Thyssen ee cause oma would be shared by all the| Relehsbank branches at Mayence, Wiesbaden, Wormsbingen and Bonn, other cith As it ts now, Tacoma loses this benefit and no other city | Private ee Se ins by Tacoma's loss, but on the| contrary shares in that loss. So we| Senate Demands |feel that in asking the support of |the reat of the atate we are doing News of Envoy | WASHINGTON, n. 19 ull in. something which will ultimately | | benefit the entire Northwest to a|formation as to the activities of Ro- |very great extent by removing anjland Boyden, unofficial representa |obstacle which has kept the rail-|tive of the United States on the jroad companies and publicity agen-|reparations commission was demand: cles from giving this great scenic} ed in ‘a meeting of the senate foreign asset proper publicity. Thanking] relations committee today, you for past favors, we are Senator Lodge, chairman of the Very ‘truly. yours, Sotorattten, 98 papracton ®, opal 4 chi every detail possible from the state M. G. MITCHELL, departmeni as to the influence and Secretary, Mount Tacoma Club, Ta-|acttvities of Boyden in the present coma, Wash, European seized customs tax office deposits in | i } ! ' ‘and |brought to trial on charges of mun” | the | netted them $30,000 and landed them: in jafl under a charge of grand eee ceny A proposal to pay back te investors in the concern, Lester Kalven company, way made to Patterson, in return for immumh — ty from prosecution. Pattersom refused to consider the offer, the opening the door for the two to return the money to their bee tims. While Patterson was delving the activities of the two sharpers, there was a rush of tims of the two, to obtain gal ment on $12,000 in assets of the cern, seized by Patterson as dence. J, C. Raymond led the in a suit against the two, judgment of $4,500, alleging and trickery on the part of the Raymond invested $4,500 in in the Beach Royalties company, holding corporation, Numerous phone inquiries Victims of the two operators cated Friday that many garnishee suits would be filed, mond has garnisheed funds concern in the National Commerce, the People’s bank safety vaults and Washington Hotel Co. 3 Attorney J. J. Sullivan, two operators, was endea’ obtain their release on bail Friday, Patterson | ball would ‘not be lowered fi original figure, which was $15,000. Ramifications of the concern hi reached Tacoma, where a office was located and the | handled by the company has bape _— [sold in Spokane thru the A] German | Sloane company in the building, Patterson said, Careful plans had been Inid the two for extensive o in Seattle, Patterson's in found for $5 from a tion disclosed. A receipt found for $5 from a direc concern which furnished the with a list of all Seattle ters, gMayor Edwin J. had been noted as a “p : as had the Rev. Chauncey Hawkins, More than 50 Seattle business had “won” small sums by in the General Motors Proposition of the two, the showed. Some of these quit izing the firm after thelr first ning. The majority came back | more investments, and bought in the Beach Royalties Co, enterprise. A contract with the Royalties held by Rubenstein and Kalven lotted the states of Ws Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Columbia to them for exploitation, Total profits of the two during past 60 days, Patterson said, approximate $30,000, HERRIN MINERS _ ARE ACQUI Clear Five ‘Men of M Charges MARION, MI, Jan. 19.—The defendants in the first Herrin mam sacre trial were acquitted today of | the murder of Howard Hoffman, © ‘The verdict was delivered at 1:60 im., after the jury had deliberated hours and 40 minutes, The accused men—Otis Peter Hiller, Bert Grace, Levia Joseph Carneghi—had bee dering Howaré Hoffman during the | riots in and about the Lester strip mine last June, Six ballots were taken by the The hush that fell over the room was unbroken, An audience of 500 spectators heard the verdict. Under close wateh — [of sheriff's deputies they passed out, one by one, smiling as it i Carrying the largest silk shi valued at $10,000,000, that has ever left the Orient for Seattle, 7,500 bags of mail and a lst of 400 passengers, Admiral Oriental line steamer President Grant satled from Yoko. — hama, Japan, Thursday and ts due in port here January 29, according to word received by company offi — cals at Seattle Friday, Capt, M, M, | Jensen is master of the Grant,